We came before columbus. They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima 2019-01-06

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30 diseases that Columbus introduced to the Americas

we came before columbus

But scientific evidence tells a very different story: When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living there. Van Sertima points out, when it comes to this subject, we have few indigenous accounts. I recommend you also read: I am in the process of revamping those videos. In addition to the dark room they looked through a small aperture in the wall to isolate the star from the rest of the night sky. This is not the case. Even after he landed in America, Columbus didn't realize he'd discovered an entire continent because maps of America were far less reliable back then.


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Dr. Ivan Van Sertima: We Came Before Columbus DVD , Black Power Productions

we came before columbus

Van Sertima married Maria Nagy in 1964; they adopted two sons, Larry and Michael. Musa not only gave to the cities he passed on the way to Mecca, including Cairo and Medina, but also traded gold for souvenirs. How dare you white wash the horrors that the Europeans consistently unleashed on the various and numerous cultures in the North, Central, and South America. Even the movies that do portray white people going native portray it as a shocking exception to the rule. The potato and tomato was such an interesting thing to learn about. It owes a psychic and spiritual debt to the Motherland. By 1495 there had been a couple thousand years of contact backward and forward across the Atlantic.

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We Came Before Columbus: Who Really Discovered the Americas,,by Dr. Arthur Lewin

we came before columbus

Missed fasts first or voluntary? It was the race of the Arabian people that produced the Arab prophet Mohammed. Van Sertima published in The Black Experience in America edited by Gayle T. This idea of blood quantum was a federally mandated concept that natives adopted. As for the inventions of the African Americans, I stand corrected. DeSoto raped and pillaged along his march from the southern tips of Florida up the eastern coasts and looping around. You are an absolute idiot! At this time I will also apologize.

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6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

we came before columbus

That's just how it works. I'm sure they were in other parts of America before that. After spending the first half of his article making appropriate comments on the violation of the human rights of prisoners at home and abroad which is something he has some knowledge of, as a New York City- based human rights activist , the author of that column then ventured off into an area in which he is absolutely devoid of knowledge, and is therefore ill-equipped to comment on — the history of African people generally, those who are Muslim particularly, and our historical relationship with the Original Native Americans of this land. Not once does the author consider the possibility that maybe the indigenous folks from over here went to Africa to school them, instead. .

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30 diseases that Columbus introduced to the Americas

we came before columbus

When it comes to the birth of America, most of us are working from a stew of elementary school history lessons, Westerns and vague Thanksgiving mythology. It has been recorded that he built a mosque each and every Friday. That does not go over well with God. Your responsibility is to show that I am wrong and that you have never done am I right. It was exciting to read Van Sertma's discussio Outstanding - well documented tracings of voyages, immigrations and trading secrets which go far toward solving mysteries in the Old and New World - of cultural similarities which had heretofore seemed impossible to reconcile with Euro-centric versions of history. These works compliment references in the writings of Christopher Columbus, Balboa, and other European explorers, to those very same Muslim African explorers specifically The Mandinka —the people of Kunta Kinte, ancestor of Alex Haley, author of Roots, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X who were already present in the Carribean and North America, before the bearers of the Cross arrived e. Steal, corn, calendar, the concept of zero, wheat, etc.


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6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

we came before columbus

It was the exchange of plants and animals that make this story vital to the creation of the modern world. But some of our Muslim brethren of different ethnicities feel that they can say anything to or about any Muslim, and that it is fine for them to do so, whether they know what they are talking about or not. For many years the Native Americans of the northeast were at war with each other. It owes a psychic and spiritual debt to the Motherland. These Africans met with the Natives whom were here.

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They came before Columbus… and what?!?

we came before columbus

However, none of the existing formulas incorporate the combined effects of the observer's age, the size of the adapting field, and monocular versus binocular stimulation, all of which are known to have a significant impact on pupil size. Until it is paid it will forever be plagued with a host of problems that come from failing to honor its Scientific Ancestors. The immigration of the first humans across the Bering Strait is by no means equatable with Europeans rape, pillage, and transference of disease. The superior vision of the Aborigines persisted, however, when comparing groups which were essentially emmetropic. These scholarly, ground-breaking works, focusing upon African Muslim as opposed to European Viking pre-Columbia exploration of North America, include those written by what is believed to be the first Western author to write on the subject, Harvard Professor Leo Weiner Africa and the Discovery of America, 1920-22. The methodology used in this study and its verification are described in detail. But here is an inexhaustive list of 30 diseases that were believed to have either been introduced to the new world — or worsened — in the post-Columbian era, which we found in a :.


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we came before columbus

For Sertima's argument to be valid, this lack of resistance on the part of the Americans must be explained. For these and other reasons, it is often desirable to estimate the pupil size for a given set of conditions when actual measurements are unavailable. Racial division is a human construct, not a scientific one. Squanto had been kidnapped from Cape Cod as a child and sold into slavery in Spain. Furthermore, very ancient African skeletons have been unearth in California, Mexico, Central and South America. Born on June 1886 in Lenox, Massachusetts, James Van Der Zee became the most sought after photographer during the. In the Pacific Northwest here, thousands of acres are cleared, for small horse pastures, which usually end up muddy lots, because there are too many horses and the ground never dries out.

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